I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

I didn't like men, but I liked women.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.